Alberta's radical new premier's radical new chief of staff hates Alberta energy

Just frickin' lovely!  Here's Ezra Levant with Brian Topp's resumé:



Can things get any worse for Alberta and Canada?  You bet they can.

That phony 97% consensus

The number 97 has become an almost magical symbol among true believers for their righteous belief that man-made global warming is a dangerous threat.  Both clueless believers and those who ought to know better shamelessly peddle that number as if it were some absolute truth.  Skeptics (aka "deniers"), on the other hand, try again and again to explain what is really going on.

Ross McKitrick: Climate change consensus among the misinformed is not worth much

In the lead-up to the Paris climate summit, massive activist pressure is on all governments ... to fall in line with the global warming agenda ... One of the most powerful rhetorical weapons being deployed is the claim that 97 per cent of the world’s scientists agree what the problem is and what we have to do about it.

 ... on what exactly are 97 per cent of experts supposed to agree? In 2013 President Obama sent out a tweet claiming 97 per cent of climate experts believe global warming is “real, man-made and dangerous.” As it turns out the survey he was referring to didn’t ask that question, so he was basically making it up.

... The Canadian government has the unenviable task of defending the interest of the energy producers and consumers of a cold, thinly-populated country, in the face of furious, deafening global warming alarmism. Some of the worst of it is now emanating from the highest places. Barack Obama’s website says “97 per cent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and man-made…Find the deniers near you — and call them out today.” How nice.

True believers will no doubt be appalled by Prof McKitrick's heresy.

A realistic assessment of Omar Khadr and his lawyer

Christie Blatchford is one of the few mainstream media commenters who doesn't think of Omar Khadr as some kind of benign victim, if not hero:

... what Edney is doing is unorthodox and arguably even a risky mixing of the professional with the personal. While your lawyer is your best friend and sometimes your only one when you’re in trouble, he doesn’t usually move you into his house.

... I wonder if any lawyer who has so devoted himself to a client, can see him or her clearly.

... Edney also [accused the prime minister of being a mean, anti-Muslim bigot].  This was one of those examples of a defence lawyer imagining he has the exclusive patent on principled conduct, which is ridiculous. ... it’s loathsome to ascribe the worst of motives – racism – to the prime minister.

Omar Khadr has spent his entire adult life immersed in radical Islam and jihad.  It stretches credulity to the extreme to believe that he has all of a sudden transformed his thinking and his allegiances.  No doubt al-Qaeda and Khadr view Dennis Edney and Khadr's media cheerleaders as some of their most useful idiots.

An interview with Bosch Fawstin, winner of the Garland "Draw Muhammad" contest

Brian Lilley with Bosch Fawstin:



Fawstin's winning drawing:

SNL's draw-the-Prophet-Muhammad skit

'Brave' or just cagey?

Update: The Blaze's take.

Khadr and his scumbag lawyer greeted by a compliant media

Ezra Levant parses a couple of Omar Khadr's first media scrums:



Omar Khadr's performance wasn't too surprising, and we've come to expect supine, even fawning, media coverage of Khadr; but what was most interesting was the disgusting behaviour of Khadr's scuzzy, extremist lawyer and media coach, Dennis Edney, an unfortunate Scottish transplant of George Galloway's ugly, al-Qaeda sympathizing ilk. As one commenter noted:

So Edney spews all sorts of defamatory, slanderous invective against Harper, then turns around the next day and asks for “respectful” treatment of his (not presently) jihadi client.

Rob Ford interview

Ezra Levant with Mayor Rob Ford before his big surgery: